Install devtools package in ubuntu VM

Question

I try to install devtools package in an Ubuntu 16.04 VM in which I am wrong.

Other packages I tried the installed successsfully

However I can't install it and the process in the console is this:

> install.packages("devtools")
Installing package into ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘curl’, ‘openssl’, ‘httr’, ‘git2r’

--2018-01-26 22:14:08--  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/curl_3.1.tar.gz
Resolving cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)... 54.230.27.181
Connecting to cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)|54.230.27.181|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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2018-01-26 22:14:09 (2,18 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/downloaded_packages/curl_3.1.tar.gz’ saved [366086/366086]

--2018-01-26 22:14:09--  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/openssl_0.9.9.tar.gz
Resolving cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)... 54.230.27.181
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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Saving to: ‘/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/downloaded_packages/openssl_0.9.9.tar.gz’

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--2018-01-26 22:14:13--  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/httr_1.3.1.tar.gz
Resolving cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)... 54.230.27.181
Connecting to cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)|54.230.27.181|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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Saving to: ‘/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/downloaded_packages/httr_1.3.1.tar.gz’

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--2018-01-26 22:14:15--  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/git2r_0.21.0.tar.gz
Resolving cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)... 54.230.27.181
Connecting to cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)|54.230.27.181|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1155512 (1,1M) [application/x-gzip]
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--2018-01-26 22:14:16--  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/devtools_1.13.4.tar.gz
Resolving cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)... 54.230.27.181
Connecting to cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)|54.230.27.181|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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2018-01-26 22:14:17 (1,63 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/downloaded_packages/devtools_1.13.4.tar.gz’ saved [486348/486348]

* installing *source* package ‘curl’ ...
** package ‘curl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libcurl' found
Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libcurl' found
Using PKG_CFLAGS=
Using PKG_LIBS=-lcurl
------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing:
 * deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
 * csw: libcurl_dev (Solaris)
If libcurl is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a libcurl.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
--------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘curl’
* removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/curl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘curl’ had non-zero exit status
* installing *source* package ‘openssl’ ...
** package ‘openssl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Using PKG_CFLAGS=
------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because openssl was not found. Try installing:
 * deb: libssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: openssl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
 * csw: libssl_dev (Solaris)
 * brew: [email protected] (Mac OSX)
If openssl is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a openssl.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
--------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘openssl’
* removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/openssl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘openssl’ had non-zero exit status
* installing *source* package ‘git2r’ ...
** package ‘git2r’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking size of void*... 8
checking for library containing inflate... -lz
checking for library containing EVP_EncryptInit... no
checking for openssl... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/RtmpQ9e11v/R.INSTALL82977388520/git2r':
configure: error: 
  ---------------------------------------------
   The OpenSSL library that is required to
   build git2r was not found.

   Please install:
     libssl-dev    (package on e.g. Debian and Ubuntu)
     openssl-devel (package on e.g. Fedora, CentOS and RHEL)
     openssl       (Homebrew package on OS X)
   and try again.

   If the OpenSSL library is installed on
   your system but the git2r configuration
   is unable to find it, you can specify
   the include and lib path to OpenSSL with:
   R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-libssl-include=INCLUDE_PATH --with-libssl-lib=LIB_PATH' git2r
  ---------------------------------------------
See `config.log' for more details
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘git2r’
* removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/git2r’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘git2r’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependencies ‘curl’, ‘openssl’ are not available for package ‘httr’
* removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/httr’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependencies ‘httr’, ‘git2r’ are not available for package ‘devtools’
* removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/devtools’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/downloaded_packages’

Any idea how could I install it? The problem is the same if I use instead of Rstudio I use the terminal for R

Also installing car package from github, as I can't find it in the list of Tools->Install Packages has problem:

> library(devtools)
> install_github("cran/car")
Downloading GitHub repo cran/car@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/cran/car/zipball/master
Installing car
--2018-01-26 22:39:07--  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/pbkrtest_0.4-7.tar.gz
Resolving cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)... 54.230.27.181
Connecting to cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)|54.230.27.181|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 156406 (153K) [application/x-gzip]
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2018-01-26 22:39:07 (1,68 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/pbkrtest_0.4-7.tar.gz’ saved [156406/156406]

Installing pbkrtest
--2018-01-26 22:39:11--  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/lme4_1.1-15.tar.gz
Resolving cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)... 54.230.27.181
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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2018-01-26 22:39:12 (6,14 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/lme4_1.1-15.tar.gz’ saved [3610706/3610706]

Installing lme4
--2018-01-26 22:39:20--  https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz
Resolving cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)... 54.230.27.181
Connecting to cran.rstudio.com (cran.rstudio.com)|54.230.27.181|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 353957 (346K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz’

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Installing nloptr
'/usr/lib/R/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/devtools756410ec724/nloptr' --library='/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2' --install-tests 

ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2’ for modifying
Try removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/00LOCK-nloptr’
Installation failed: Command failed (3)
'/usr/lib/R/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL '/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/devtools7561eb5da54/lme4'  \
  --library='/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2' --install-tests 

ERROR: dependency ‘nloptr’ is not available for package ‘lme4’
* removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/lme4’
Installation failed: Command failed (1)
'/usr/lib/R/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/devtools75623bf595c/pbkrtest' --library='/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2' --install-tests 

ERROR: dependency ‘lme4’ is not available for package ‘pbkrtest’
* removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/pbkrtest’
Installation failed: Command failed (1)
'/usr/lib/R/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/tmp/RtmpIF4wAz/devtools75635e8f138/cran-car-4f39fce' --library='/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2' --install-tests 

ERROR: dependency ‘pbkrtest’ is not available for package ‘car’
* removing ‘/home/stefan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/car’
Installation failed: Command failed (1)

Answer 1

Certainly, the answer is within the output you pasted. You need to install in the OS (as opposed as in R) the following dependencies:

libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev

To install them, run in your terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

And then go to R and try reinstalling "devtools".

Answer 2

As of Ubuntu 20.0 devtools is available as a r-cran ubuntu package. https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/r-cran-devtools

Install with sudo apt-get install r-cran-devtools